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Help bring Jodi home

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Hello, my name is Joel McWilliams. My family (Jodi, myself, and our 10-year-old daughter) and I live in Iowa. Over the Easter holiday, my wife was visiting her mother in Phoenix Arizona to pack her up and move her to Iowa. On Sunday, April 17, 2022, my wife and mother-in-law were traveling back from a brunch with friends and were broadsided by a car that ran a stop sign in a residential area going more than 30 miles an hour over the speed limit.

My mother-in-law passed away at the scene, and my wife, Jodi, was severely injured. Jodi was taken to the local ER in critical condition. She arrived at the hospital nonresponsive and having seizures. During the crash, she suffered a fractured pelvis. Her carotid arteries were damaged from the seatbelt, broken blood vessel in her head, causing a subdermal hematoma in the brain, collapsed lung, and severe traumatic brain injury. She currently has limited cognitive response, can not stay awake, and can not move her left arm or use the left side of her face and eye.

She has made it through the trauma phase, but now it is time to get her from Phoenix Arizona to an acute rehabilitation facility closer to home in Omaha Nebraska and back to her daughter. As with most things of this nature, Medical Insurance does not cover the transportation to the acute rehabilitation facility. One of the best facilities is located in my home town next to all of my family. Jodi needs special medical air transportation to get her from Phoenix to Omaha. The cost to get Jodi home is $23,300. The family bears these costs. If you feel it in your heart, we could use the help with this financial burden.

I struggled to ask for help and was challenged by friends to do this. So if you are able and willing, Jodi, my daughter, and I could use some help; anything would make a difference. If not, that is okay and thank you for reading our story. I would appreciate any positive thoughts and prayers for Jodi and her long road ahead. We want to get home!
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  • Melanie Anania
    • $11
    • 2 yrs
  • Madison Brown
    • $50
    • 2 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
  • cathy bolkcom
    • $10
    • 3 yrs
  • Margy Bush
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
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Joel McWilliams
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Bettendorf, IA

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